As an aside, did anyone go to that link and watch the Sky Tower fireworks "display". It honestly looks like they just popped down to the Warehouse and bought the $50 fireworks pack. NZ misses the trick when it comes to this stuff. Invest some money in a decent fireworks display (like they had for the RWC 2011) and since it's the first country to see the new year, it would get plastered all over the world news. Instead everyone just ignores it and focuses on Australia.

As an aside, did anyone go to that link and watch the Sky Tower fireworks "display". It honestly looks like they just popped down to the Warehouse and bought the $50 fireworks pack. NZ misses the trick when it comes to this stuff. Invest some money in a decent fireworks display (like they had for the RWC 2011) and since it's the first country to see the new year, it would get plastered all over the world news. Instead everyone just ignores it and focuses on Australia.

Second country. Samoa changed their time zone to GMT+13 (GMT+14 DST) so that they could claim to be first.